Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 04 May 2007 08:52:00 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Replace paravirt_probe with "platform type" boot header field |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Unlikely. Unless we expect that this offset will come in non-zero. >
You might have to worry about that. Historically, the "zero-page" was really just the setup code overwritten, and it's still true for a big chunk of it.
One of the major changes in my setup code rewrite is to start out with an all-zero chunk of memory for this.
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